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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 2162742, member: 11668&quot;]Also worth pointing out: In the 1928 and 1934 series, the transitions between different series letters aren&#039;t sharp.&nbsp; For example, when Series 1934C came along, the BEP started making 1934C printing plates, but they also kept on using the older 1934B printing plates until they wore out.&nbsp; During the time when they had both old and new plates on hand, they&#039;d mix them freely, often using both on the same press (the presses at the time used four plates in rotation).&nbsp; So when the notes got serial numbers, a brand-new pack of consecutively numbered notes could contain a mix of 1934B and 1934C.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Therefore, it&#039;s not really possible to give precise figures on the number of notes printed in each lettered series--there were never any records that separated them out.&nbsp; The low/high observed serials in the books give a rough idea of the quantities involved.&nbsp; In many cases the books also give estimated printage figures based on the plate records (take the number of sheets printed from each individual plate, add them up for all plates in the series, and then work up estimates for how many notes resulted after spoilage in the printing process).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the case of Federal Reserve Notes, you also need to remember that the 1928 series had the &quot;Redeemable in gold&quot; clause, which was dropped for the 1934 series.&nbsp; That was a sufficiently big deal that, once the 1934 notes had gone into production, substantial quantities of leftover 1928 notes were destroyed without ever being issued.&nbsp; So the later 1928 printings (1928C and 1928D especially) are a lot scarcer than they look based on the serial ranges or the estimated printage totals.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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